Courtesy of Taryn Revoir/The Daily Tar Heel
UNC Department of Public Safety officers stand guard around the fallen statue on McCorkle Place. Silent Sam was pulled down by protestors during a rally Monday, Aug. 21.
On Monday, Maya Little, a UNC graduate student, was found guilty after being charged with a misdemeanor for wiping ink and her blood on the controversial and recently toppled Silent Sam statue on April 30.
According to The Daily Tar Heel, Little’s trial was presided by Orange County District Court Judge Samantha Cabe. Little was represented by Scott Holmes, who has represented other individuals involved in the takedown of the statue.
In Little’s testimony, she admitted to smearing the items as an attempt to display to the university the context of the statue after she had already resorted to legal manners that did not get anywhere, according to WRAL.
“I felt that, without that blood, without any kind of context around the statue, besides calling it the blind duty to fight for slavery, that it was not a proper historical monument at all,” Little said in her testimony.
Cabe found Little guilty but granted a prayer for judgement continued, which means that she has not been convicted.